Energy

Solar, wind, batteries, green hydrogen and power grids

The Energy section of ECOnews covers solar and wind power, offshore wind farms, batteries and energy storage, green hydrogen, nuclear power and power grids. Follow the projects, records and innovations changing how the world produces and uses electricity.

Researchers studied 200 wind turbines rising above Iowa corn and soybean fields for two summers and found they could cool the air by up to 0.75°C during the day and warm it by 1.5°C at night, but whether that actually produces more corn remains unanswered

By Adrian Villellas

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September 22, 2026 at 8:47 AM

In 1999, workers filled a 42-foot nuclear reactor vessel with 200 tons of concrete and moved the 1,020-ton package 300 miles by barge and a 320-wheel trailer, but 791 spent fuel assemblies from the same Oregon plant are still waiting in storage today

By ECONEWS

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September 20, 2026 at 1:00 PM

Sweden imported 3.86 million metric tons of other countries’ waste in 2024 and gets paid to burn it for heat and electricity, but the system still releases fossil CO2 and is not the same as recycling

By Adrian Villellas

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September 19, 2026 at 5:01 PM

South Fork Wind’s 12 turbines off Long Island are already working as artificial reefs, and black sea bass catches were ten times higher at nearby Block Island, but scientists warn that more fish around a turbine doesn’t mean more fish in the ocean

By Adrian Villellas

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September 19, 2026 at 10:14 AM

Texas ranchers sued to stop 46 wind turbines near the Devils River, conservationists worry about a cave once home to 250,000 bats, and a study shows a simple change could cut bat deaths by 62%

By ECONEWS

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September 18, 2026 at 6:32 AM

More than 23,000 solar panels have floated on a reservoir outside London since 2016, generating enough electricity for roughly 1,800 homes while using less than 10% of the water’s surface, and research suggests the shade beneath them could also reduce evaporation

By ECONEWS

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September 17, 2026 at 8:46 AM

Radia is designing a 356-foot cargo plane with a 261-foot wingspan to carry 344-foot wind turbine blades where trucks cannot go, then land on a 6,000-foot dirt runway built beside the wind farm instead of a conventional airport

By ECONEWS

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September 15, 2026 at 1:39 PM

Wind turbine blades are built to survive storms for decades, but Sweden is testing how to take them apart afterward

By Adrian Villellas

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September 13, 2026 at 6:43 PM

The wind changed before reaching a North Sea wind farm, and lasers caught the slowdown almost two miles away

By ECONEWS

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September 13, 2026 at 4:23 PM

A Kansas rancher let 50 wind turbines rise across his 7,000-acre cattle ranch in 2005, and 20 years later the cows still graze beneath them while wind royalties provide roughly half his income and help keep the land in the family

By ECONEWS

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September 13, 2026 at 11:43 AM

A Munich bus trailer generated power from 20 solar panels, but the company behind the diesel-saving idea ran out of money

By ECONEWS

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September 10, 2026 at 2:58 PM

The Vatican is preparing a solar farm nearly ten times its own size north of Rome, but the field is still waiting for its first panel

By ECONEWS

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September 10, 2026 at 3:42 AM

Two giant bubble rings were built around offshore wind foundations near Virginia Beach, but the seabed exposed what they could not stop

By Adrian Villellas

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September 9, 2026 at 6:09 AM

New Haven turned an old trash hill into a solar plant, and 1,900 panels now power homes without clearing farmland or forest

By ECONEWS

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September 8, 2026 at 6:36 PM

A small Devon power plant uses liquid dense enough to float concrete, and it could change where clean energy gets stored

By ECONEWS

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September 8, 2026 at 10:45 AM

A Wyoming mountain could become a 972-megawatt water battery, but the project may disturb the trout waters below Seminoe Reservoir

By ECONEWS

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September 8, 2026 at 8:45 AM

Westinghouse wants up to 91 nuclear units across several countries, but the real bottleneck may begin inside U.S. licensing offices

By ECONEWS

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September 8, 2026 at 6:30 AM

A Massachusetts cranberry bog grew under solar panels, and the result shows why shade can help crops without proving sweeter fruit

By ECONEWS

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September 6, 2026 at 6:30 AM

Great Britain plans to build a 22.5-kilometer-long tidal barrier, consisting of 206 giant concrete caissons and 125 turbines, which would generate enough electricity for about 2 million households

By ECONEWS

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September 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM

A new reactor turned bottles, bags and car plastics into hydrogen, and the carbon problem stayed trapped in solid material

By ECONEWS

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September 3, 2026 at 6:30 PM

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